Most of the party's senior figures lost their seats, including Arthur Henderson, the party leader.

* 1935 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1863 )

* 1863 – Arthur Henderson, British politician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1935 )

** Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1935 )

* October 20 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1863 )

* Peace – Arthur Henderson

The fifth member, Arthur Henderson, was the unofficial representative of the Labour Party.

* Arthur Henderson – Minister without Portfolio

* May — August 1917 – In temporary absence of Arthur Henderson, George Barnes, Minister of Pensions acts as a member of the War Cabinet.

* August 1917 – George Barnes succeeds Arthur Henderson ( resigned ) as Minister without Portfolio and Labour Party member of the War Cabinet.

Other notable players for the Giants included Oliver Marcelle, Smokey Joe Williams, " Pop " Lloyd, and Arthur " Rats " Henderson.

The party's new leader Arthur Henderson and nearly every other leading Labour figure were defeated.

* Wisden Nine Great Batsmen of the Year – Bobby Abel, Billy Barnes, Billy Gunn, Louis Hall, Robert Henderson, Maurice Read, Arthur Shrewsbury, Frank Sugg, Albert Ward

In 1908, Hardie resigned as leader of the Labour Party and was replaced by Arthur Henderson.

* Arthur Henderson 1916

David Lloyd George and Arthur Henderson met Gallacher and the Clyde Workers ' Committee in Glasgow but they were unwilling to back down on the issue.

British statesman Arthur Henderson once lived at number 13 and there is a Blue Plaque on the house indicating this.

Arthur Henderson ( 20 September 1863 – 20 October 1935 ) was a British iron moulder and Labour politician.

Arthur Henderson was born at 10 Paterson Street, Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland in 1863, the illegitimate son of Agnes Henderson, a domestic servant.

After finishing his apprenticeship at seventeen, Arthur Henderson moved to Southampton for a year and then returned to work as an iron moulder ( a type of foundryman ) in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Arthur Henderson died aged 72 in 1935.

His second son William was created Baron Henderson in 1945 while his third son Arthur was made Baron Rowley in 1966.

Arthur Henderson: A Biography ( 1938 ) a detailed, favourable account by a colleague

" Arthur Henderson as Labour Leader ," International Review of Social History ( 1978 ) 23 # 1 pp 79-101

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

* 1716 – Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral

* Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington ( 1807 – 1884 ), British soldier and nobleman

* Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington ( 1849 – 1934 ), British soldier

* Arthur Wellesley, 5th Duke of Wellington ( 1876 – 1941 ), British soldier and nobleman

There is some doubt as to the origin of the name ; but most probably it is derived from a collection of Alexandrine romances, collected in the 12th century, of which Alexander the Great was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British Arthur, as the pride and crown of chivalry.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

Clarke's Three Laws are three " laws " of prediction formulated by the British writer Arthur C. Clarke.

The British geologist Arthur Holmes championed the theory of continental drift at a time when it was deeply unfashionable.

Chandrasekhar's work on the limit aroused controversy, owing to the opposition of the British astrophysicist Arthur Stanley Eddington.

Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

Martin Hewitt, created by British author Arthur Morrison in 1894, is perhaps the first example of the modern style of fictional private detective.

* 1887 – Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer ( d. 1966 )

* 1888 – J. Arthur Rank, British film producer ( d. 1972 )

Dan Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.

* Sir Arthur Currie, Lieutenant General, British Army, commanding Canadian Corps

Arthur Tansley, a British ecologist, was the first person to use the term " ecosystem " in a published work.

They suggest instead that both names " may have similarly arisen at a very early date as generic names for a sword "; this sword then became exclusively the property of Arthur in the British tradition.

It is generally regarded that the British film industry enjoyed a ' golden age ' in the 1940s, led by the studios of J. Arthur Rank and Alexander Korda.

Towards the end of the 1940s, the Rank Organisation, founded in 1937 by J. Arthur Rank, became the dominant force behind British film-making.

* 1872 – John Arthur Jarvis, British swimmer ( d. 1933 )

Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders.

* 1899 – Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian ( d. 1985 )